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The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

Baron de Montesquieu

Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations derived from the nature of things.
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Law Relation
Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it.
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Abuse Evil Men
The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.
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Citizens Men Naked
There have never been so many civil wars as in the Kingdom of Christ.
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Civil War Kingdoms War
Religious wars are not caused by the fact that there is more than one religion, but by the spirit of intolerance… the spread of which can only be regarded as the total eclipse of human reason.
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Religion Religious War
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants
You have to study a great deal to know a little.
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Learning Littles Study
Passion makes us feel, but never see clearly.
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Cleanly Feel Passion
Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.
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Facts Simplicity Writing
There is as yet no liberty if the power of judging be not separated from legislative power and the executrix
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Executrix Judging Liberty Separate
For a country, everything will be lost when the jobs of an economist and a banker become highly respected professions.
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Bankers Country Jobs
False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.
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Happiness Laughter Men
Vanity and pride of nations; vanity is as advantageous to a government as pride is dangerous.
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Government Pride Vanity
Laws, in their most general signification, are the necessary relations arising from the nature of things. In this sense all beings have their laws: the Deity His laws, the material world its laws, the intelligences superior to man their laws, the beasts their laws, man his laws.
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God Nature Science
I acknowledge that history is full of religious wars: but we must distinguish; it is not the multiplicity of religions which has produced these wars; it was the intolerating spirit which animated that one which thought she had the power of governing.
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Religious Spirit War
I have never known any distress that an hour’s reading did not relieve.
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Fearless Philosophical Reading

The false notion of miracles comes of our vanity, which makes us believe we are important enough for the Supreme Being to upset nature on our behalf.

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